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The Ghosts of Seattle’s Past project and Councilmember Lisa Herbold (District 1, West Seattle & South Park) will host an evening forum tomorrow, providing artists and residents an opportunity to highlight the Seattle small businesses they want to see preserved in the face of booming development. Participants will share anecdotes of their experiences and speak to why certain neighborhood icons are essential to Seattle’s community fabric.

The forum is hosted in anticipation of report-back recommendations from Mayor Murray’s Commercial Affordability Advisory Committee, scheduled for the end of next month. The group is expected to recommend what policies or funding support may be necessary to preserve and protect Seattle’s iconic small businesses.

Councilmember Herbold recently commissioned a Seattle Legacy Business Survey, which was intended to inform efforts to help preserve the bars, restaurants, cafés, and shops that give Seattle its unique character and sense of community. 470 people participated in the survey. Councilmember Herbold and several community members met with Mayor Murray’s Commercial Affordability Advisory Committee last month to propose a Seattle Legacy Business program.
Event Speakers include:

Ken Workman, Great-great-great-great grandson of Chief Seattle, member of Duwamish Tribal Council
Wes Browning, journalist for Real Change
Rahwa Habte, community builder, youth outreach for OneAmerica, Hidmo
Elissa Washuta, author, nonfiction faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts
Sarah Galvin, queer and trans poet/author of The Three Einsteins and The Best Party of Our Lives
Dave Holden, singer/songwriter, son of Seattle jazz patriarch Oscar Holden
Jeff Stevens, Seattle Star journalist, curator of Radical Seattle Remembers
Pio DeCano, member of the Filipino American National Historical Society
Clark Humphrey, historian, author of the Vanishing Seattle series
Nancy Chang, Executive Director of Reel Grrls
Eugenia Woo, historian and preservationist with Historic Seattle
Suntonio Bandanaz, community organizer, 206Zulu
Yin Yu, community organizer, Women of Color Speak Out
Philip Wohlstetter, artist, author, Invisible Seattle
Ethan Phelps-Goodman, artist, Seattle In Progress
Stephanie Johnson-Toliver, docent for Northwest African American Museum, committee member for the Central Area Arts and Cultural District

WHAT:
Residents’ Podium for Seattle Legacy Spaces

WHERE:
The Center for Architecture and Design
1010 Western Ave
Seattle, WA 98104

WHEN:
Thursday, August 11
6:30 p.m.

WHO:
Ghosts of Seattle’s Past
Councilmember Lisa Herbold
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